Rightful Heir

This Story: Season 6 Episode 23 (production code 249)
TNG Overall: Episode 149
Trek Overall: Story 243, Episode 251
Airdate: 17 May 1993
Story by James E. Brooks
Teleplay by Ronald D Moore
Directed by Winrich Kolbe

Notes

• Troi & Geordi do not appear in the final episode.
• A lot of the lore of Kahless originated in cut dialogue from “Birthright Part II“.  Worf references events in that episode as having affected his faith.
• In the original scripted version, when Kahless boards the Enterprise, he assumes that Deanna Troi was a “gift” for him.  :)
• The “Kahless shrine” in Worf’s quarters is seen again the seventh season episode “Firstborn“.
• The status of a Klingon emperor has been brought up before (“Sins of the Father” & “Reunion“), but it wasn’t really crystalized until now.  The timing of all this is brought up again in the DS9 episode “Soldiers of the Empire“.
• The final appearance of Gowron in TNG.  His next appearance is in the DS9 episode “The House of Quark“.
• The Monastery of Boreth is revisited in the Star Trek Discovery episode “Through the Valley of Shadows“.

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